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Iran arrests converts to Christianity at Easter service

May 3, 2014 5:32 pm By Robert Spencer

bazdasht-5Muhammad commanded: “Whoever changed his Islamic religion, then kill him” (Bukhari 9.84.57). This is still the position of all the schools of Islamic jurisprudence, both Sunni and Shi’ite. Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the most renowned and prominent Muslim cleric in the world, has stated: “The Muslim jurists are unanimous that apostates must be punished, yet they differ as to determining the kind of punishment to be inflicted upon them. The majority of them, including the four main schools of jurisprudence (Hanafi, Maliki, Shafi`i, and Hanbali) as well as the other four schools of jurisprudence (the four Shiite schools of Az-Zaidiyyah, Al-Ithna-`ashriyyah, Al-Ja`fariyyah, and Az-Zaheriyyah) agree that apostates must be executed.” There is only disagreement over whether the law applies only to men, or to women also – some authorities hold that apostate women should not be killed, but only imprisoned in their houses until death. This father clearly believes that a female apostate should be killed.

“A Number of Christian Converts Arrested at Easter Service,” Mohabat News, April 28, 2014 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

Iranian security authorities raided an Easter service in a house-church in southern Tehran, on Friday, April 18, arresting those in attendance.

According to Mohabat News, Human Rights news sources in Iran reported that five of those arrested in the raid are identified as Ehsan Sadeghi, Nazi and Maryam Asadi, Vahid Safi, and Amin Mazloomi.

These reports indicate that plain-clothes security authorities raided Ms. Asadi’s house, where a house-church service was being held. The Authorities were armed and carrying walkie-talkies. They terrified those in the house-church and began searching the house. They eventually transferred all in attendance to an unknown location using two white vans.

Neighbors of Ms. Asadi said that the security authorities were very disrespectful to those in the house-church as well as to the neighbors. They also went on the roof top of the apartment building and broke satellite dishes belonging to other residents of the building.

There are no details available regarding these detainees’ whereabouts currently and efforts of their families to find out about their situation have not been effective.

A large group of Iranian Christians with Islamic backgrounds have been arrested and sentenced to lengthy prison terms in recent years. Numerous Farsi-speaking official Churches have been closed down and banned from any religious activities as well.

Last month, Ahmad Shaheed, UN Special Rapporteur on Iran, released an extensive report on Human Rights violations in Iran. In that report he had warned that Human Rights and basic freedoms of Iranian citizens are widely violated on a regular basis.

Mr. Shaheed also expresses serious concerns over the persecution of Christians who have converted from Islam along with Baha’is, Dervishes and Sunni Muslims.

The European Parliament released a resolution on Iran criticizing the country for discriminating on the basis of ethnicity, gender and religion, including against Baha’is and Christians.

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  1. Gary Fouse says

    May 3, 2014 at 5:41 pm

    This is one of the recurring issues that US Muslim leaders are constantly trying to sidestep. Muzammil Siddiqi, formerly head of ISNA and now head of the Islamic Center of Orange County, told me personally that this is an issue of disagreement among Islamic scholars. It was his position that if apostates want to leave, let them. When I asked about those like Nonie Darwish, who speak out against Islam, he said “That is treason” and likened it to Muslims who supported the Soviets in Afghanistan.

    It should also be noted that Siddiqi is one of 200 Muslim leaders in the US who have refused to sign Darwish’s Freedom Pledge stating that apostates in the US should not be harmed. At the above meeting, he told me he never got it. Months later, when we met at Cerritos College, I personally handed it to him. He has not signed.

    • mortimer says

      May 4, 2014 at 9:31 am

      When scratched, the micrometer-thin veneer of civilization on this mullah is removed; the fangs of a dangerous, intolerant Death Cult are revealed.

      ‘Traitors’ must be executed…but ‘we are tolerant’.

      Islamic doublespeak and double messages are pairs of mutually incompatible statements by which Muslims hope to confuse and make it impossible to resist the advance of their intolerance. Taqiyya is a form of psychological warfare.

      Mullah Siddiqui is a ‘traitor’ to honesty and truth.

  2. Elise says

    May 3, 2014 at 6:33 pm

    Pray for these people as they are tortured and starved in their prisons. Read the book Captive in Iran to see how other Christians dealt with terrible prison life in Iran and spread the word of Jesus in prison and changed some lives forever.

  3. FIWI says

    May 3, 2014 at 8:30 pm

    OR you could go to shoebat.com and donate to his rescuechristians.org ministry which needs money to continue rescuing christians from middle east/asia

    • dumbledoresarmy says

      May 5, 2014 at 2:01 am

      One can also support “The Barnabas Fund”.

      http://www.barnabasfund.org/

      Barnabas’ primary focus is on giving practical and spiritual support to Christians (whether they belong to traditional “dhimmi” indigenous minorities such as the Copts, or whether they are apostates from Islam) suffering persecution within the Islamic world; though they also assist suffering Christians in the few *non-Islamic* persecuting hellholes, e.g. North Korea. They *also* lobby non-Muslim governments, primarily in the West, to attempt to wake them up and get them to impose Consequences on the persecuting Muslim states. And they are engaged in awareness-raising campaigns about the “sharia creep” within *western countries* that is pressed forward by things like the sharia finance scam and the halal certification racket.

      Furthermore, Barnabas puts out four excellent information booklets that are not “proselytising” in tone or content and can be handed with complete confidence to any person whether Christian or non-Christian, in order to better inform them about what Islam is on about.

      “What is Shari’a?” is I think the best. You can buy it from their website for the princely sum of $1 Australian. Buy a sackful and keep handy to share around. Send one to your elected representative/s, with a covering letter.

      The others are “Islam and Truth” (includes an explanation of what taqiyya is), “Islam and Slavery”, and – useful to prevent Christians from being bamboozled by muslim “interfaith” snake-oil operators – “Is the Muslim ‘Isa the Biblical Jesus?”. Even if one is a red-hot atheist, or if one is a Jew, or Hindu, or Buddhist, one can obtain and use the last-named item to wake up and warn any of one’s Christian friends, relatives, neighbours, classmates, students or workmates who have been fooled or look like they are in process of being fooled by slyly smiling MOhammedan flatterers who have been telling them, “But *we* honour Jesus and Mary too…”.

      The founder of Barnabas Fund, Patrick Sookhdeo, has also written a handy booklet called “Understanding Shari’a finance” which nicely exposes what a thoroughgoing and deadly scam “sharia finance” is. It isn’t expensive, and would be a good present for one’s accountant or bank manager; and it ought to be on the desk of every Finance Minister in the Western World. Personally, I think David Cameron after his mind-boggling remarks about wanting to make London a centre for Islamic finance, needs to receive a copy, with a brief and acerbic covering letter.

  4. Jay Boo says

    May 3, 2014 at 8:57 pm

    It is easier to live in a lie than admit Islam’s duty has all been a waste.
    If any religion other than Islam is allowed into Iran, the Iranian theocracy will eventually have to admit Islam is a vile sham and Iranians will have come to terms with the fact that their miserable existence under the regime’s religious thought police has all been for nothing.

  5. Walter Sieruk says

    May 4, 2014 at 11:38 am

    As for the Iranian officials aresting Christian at an Easter church service. Of course the officlials of this tyrannical Islamic regime would do such a terrible thing. One reason for this act of intolerance is the Islam is in great contradiction with the events recorded in the Bible that people associate with Easter. As for Easter the reader might need to be reminded that Islam denies that Jesus ever went to the cross. Likewise, Islam denies that Jesus died on the cross was buried and then rose again on the third day after He was buried. Thus Islam is in a great contratiction to God’s Word ,the Bible. For the Bible teaches that Jesus , in fact, did go to the cross, died on it and then was buried in a tomb and then rose from the dead. As seen in the Bible ,for example in First Corinthians 15:1-8. Romans 10:9,10. First Peter 3:18. Philippians 2:5-11. This also is shown in Matthew 27:32-65. Also, the whole chapter of Matthew 28 like shows this. The other three gospels likewise teaches this. As Isaiah 8:20. explains “To the law ofthe testimony: if they speak not according to the word, it is because the is no light in them.” [KJV] Thus since the teachings of Islam are in great contrast to the teachings of the Bible Islam is part of the world of darkness and is also a false religion, Proverbs 14:2. John 3:16,17,36. 14:6. First John 2:22,23.

  6. stipe says

    May 4, 2014 at 12:13 pm

    It is only when these brave Christians are preparred to suffer for their faith that there will be change in the Islamic world. It is the duty of the whole Christian world to offer support to these brave souls in their hour of tribulation.

  7. dumbledoresarmy says

    May 5, 2014 at 2:05 am

    A book worth looking up, containing the personal testimony of an ex-Muslim, now-Christian, from Iran, one Daniel Shayesteh: “Exodus from Darkness”.

    He was fortunate in that when he left Islam his wife apostasised also, and their family of daughters.

    In their case, they had to flee Iran and now live in the West, where they spend their time warning the various independent churches about the ugly reality of Islam.

  8. gravenimage says

    May 5, 2014 at 10:35 pm

    Iran arrests converts to Christianity at Easter service
    …………………………

    And, of course, the timing of this was deliberate: terrorize Christians at their most joyous festival.

    God, I hate Islam.

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